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180 - US Navy Demolition Divers

The WW2 Podcast

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The Courage of the UDTs

The UDTs were looked to to help scout the way for our occupation forces. They would go board battleships and clear demolition and check these landing places for mines. He found himself at Yoko soup, the naval base, just outside Tokyo, checking for any suicide boats. And then find some suicide boats trapper found a lot of these suicide torpedoes and suicide boats so we're blowing those up. It's just incredible where they managed to get themselves to it's that classic story if it wasn't true if he was written as fiction you just think you'd think it was just unbelievable.

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